MLK Jr. + Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh

(Letters & Politics) The Buddhist and The Christian: When Thay met MLK

Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.

Brothers (Parallax Press)

(Paperback) Author Bishop Marc Andrus has 4.7 out of 5 stars (with 105 reviews). This is the never-before-told story of the friendship between American Christian Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh—icons who changed each other and the world.

The day after Rev. King was assassinated in 1968, Thich Nhat Hanh wrote a heartbroken letter to their mutual friend Raphael Gould. In it he said: "I did not sleep last night.... They killed Martin Luther King. They killed us.

"I am afraid the root of violence is so deep in the heart and mind and manner of this society. They killed him. They killed my hope. I do not know what to say.... He made so great an impression in me. This morning I have the impression that I cannot bear the loss." More

AUTHOR: Marc Andrus is the American bishop of the Episcopal Church (Anglican Communion). He was the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California until his retirement in the summer of 2024. Prior to his election as Bishop of California, Andrus served as a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. More

• BOOK: Brothers in the Beloved Community: The Friendship of Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King Jr.
• Bishop Marc Andrus, January 10, 2023; Asangoham, 2025; Pfc. Sandoval, CC Liu, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Greenland NOT for sale, Trump: Here's why

"F*** you": Pres. Trump flips off heckler who called him a "pedophile protector"

'Hands off Greenland' protest against Donald Trump in Copenhagen (Greenland Crisis)

(Hook Global) Greenlandic politician shows mirror to Trump over  invasion plan: He doesn't know.

• Trump sparks EU's 'tariff bazooka' to hit the USA
• The Greenland Crisis Dictator Trump manufactured

(KFDM YouTube) Greenland feud grows as Trump's private note leaks

(CNN) To prove how stupid he is, Trump ties Greenland threat to Nobel snub

USA/CIA Afghan massacre under Obama's watch - Who's naive and stupid, MAGA or Dems?

Trump awarded Nobel Peace Prize (by kissup)

If you take my job, you have to make war. - OK.

What is a "kissup"? It is one who kisses @$$, that is, kisses up to power to get something. Will this "fine woman," as Trump now calls Nobel Peace Laureate María Corina Machado, be elevated to ruler of her country, Venezuela, by its current president (according to Wikipedia), Don Juan Trump? Kowtow, fawn, and brown nose all the way to the bottom -- that's the way to American Dictator Trump's affection. How happy Nobel Peace Laureate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh (nominated by MLK Jr.), and other Nobel laureates be to hear it? Former Warlord B.S. Obama must be nonplussed. If Trump were awarded by the Nobel committee, that might show everyone how corrupt the process has become, so corrupted that even he (Obi) got one before ever doing anything to merit it then went on a rampage of abuse of his Pentagon powers: bombing, killing, invading, expelling, all under the veneer of an esteemed and beloved peacemaker who, being Black, couldn't possibly be as bad as the maniacs (Bush and Cheney) he was installed to replace (along with war-loving Biden).

Cartoonists are pro-Trump? (Little Trump Podcast)

• Insurrection Act of 1807
• National Guard (United States)

This weak, ineffectual woman who has no respect in her country, according to Trump, knows how to work it

Peace Prize Pacifier for Warlord Trump

(The Daily Show) FIFA giving Trump a gold pacifier during his looming War on Venezuela for the CIA's drug sales and American industry's oil gives Jon Stewart Iraq deja vu.

(Jimmy Kimmel Live) Kennedy Center Honors (KCH) presenter DJ Trump, attacks "horrible" Jimmy Kimmel [who's never hosted the KCH], gets embarrassing fake award. Kimmel announces one-year show renewal

(SNL) Trump "wins" newly invented "FIFA Peace Prize for supporting wars, dictators, and extrajudicial murders of suspected fishermen by labeling them drug-runners; Democrats release Epstein Island photos

Hitler, Beav & Butt, Trump Peace Prize?

• Let's revisit a post from March 2025: Issa says he'll nominate Trump for Nobel Peace Prize

You and the Dems want War. I want Putin Peace.

Trump gave a good speech, probably the best of his life. Nobel Peace Prize? Why not? War criminal Obama got a preemptive one then lined up war after war for his overseers. Is he a moronic idiot? Maybe. But that seems to work in his favor. He can keep doing his NLP tricks and no one seems to notice or mind, thinking he's just being dumb. All of his arguments are tautologies, not arguments at all, slogans with self-closing loops. Hitler did that.

Reduce anxiety by not worrying. Here's how. - Jimmy Dore keeps it brief: Liar Trump truths it

Trump's audience, which doesn't have the bandwidth to pay that much attention, loves it. It's simple. It's to the point then repeats the point. It doesn't get bogged down with facts or logical thought processes. It's about assumptions and gut feelings, implicit biases and racist/sexist tendencies. Republicans have been said to prefer this over the mealy-mouthed mishmash of Democrats. Only Billy Clinton and B.S. Obama could speak well. And not since Ronnie Reagan has anyone connected with business interests, right wingers, movers and shakers, and the military. (This is not Trump's brainchild; he had a script written for him called Project 2025).

I got money and power. What's next, Mars?

By aligning with multi-billionaire lonE ksuM (Lone Kissum-up?) and his gang of youths with computer skills and prying eyes looking at everyone's private data, he gets to take credit for change, innovation, and disruption of the Swamp. He's been lying about draining it for a long time. Now he's doing something, something insiders have been wanting to do for a long time. Trump is the face of it but not the brains, just like Reagan. And what does the nominal opposition (Left in name only) have? Old man Bernie Sanders who can't afford denture paste. *Exhale* It's pathetic. The party of Pelosi and the Squad's AOC, Waters and Kucinich... Where is Kucinich? Get an elderly caveman with a cane to heckle him at the onset of two hours of coherence, that only seems to have helped Trump. Democrats looking down at their phones in boredom through the address, that was funny. Boo for the Bad Man. Yay for the sign holders? Jimmy Dore, what is your analysis?

• Mike Judge (Letterman); Sarah Silverman as Hitler (Conan O'Brien Show); Common Sense News (Beavis & Butthead); Jimmy Dore (TJDS); Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly, March 5, 2025

Showdown: Trump's Troops vs. The Antifa

(Democracy Now) Anti-fascism American scholar flees due to Trump's fearmongering, Oct. 15, '25

Middle-Aged man effortlessly outruns ICE agents in Paul Blart-Esque moment

MAGA World live at ICE facility, Broadview, IL - If Trump were arrested, on what charge?

Portland’s Mascot March: Protesters turn Trump's ICE ‘War Zone’ into spectacle | APT

• 2025 Portland, Oregon's peaceful protests
• DemocracyNow.org with U.S. antifa scholar
• Top U.S. & World Headlines — Oct. 14, 2025

Peaceful demonstrators wear inflatable costumes to mock Trump's claims of OR "war zone"

Emergency Naked Bike Ride in vulnerable Portland, Oregon, under Trump

Jews, Christians gang up on fellow Abrahamic religion Islam [for CIA dream of Greater Israel]

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We stand with U.S. Fuhrer Trunf.

If YOU subscribe or are even thinking of subscribing to an ANTI-FAscist, mmm, ideology, you are now guilty of a thoughtcrime* and are considered an official "member" of a forbidden, violent, domestic terrorist organization criminalized by Fascist Leader Trump. So knock it off and become PRO-FAscist. It's the law! OBEY. You may submit yourself for detainment at any ICE pop up in your sector. Or please visit your local Republican (GOP) recruiting office or Sunday evangelical service for directions to donor-sponsored and approved shopping outlets. And remember to catch our counterprogramming Alternative Super Bowl halftime show with Turning Point USA MAGA's happy Queen Erika Kirk to stop the capitalist oppression of our youth and drinking public from being exposed to Puerto Rican American citizen Mr. Bad Bunny.

(Late Night w/Seth Meyers) Trump to make Antifa Int'l terrorist organization

• 5 performers who make perfect sense to headline Turning Point USA’s “All American Halftime Show” | Vanity Fair How about Hologram of Charlie Kirk Tupac-style?

TPUSA hates Bad Bunny for God

(Forbes) TPUSA to stage ‘All American Halftime Show’ counterprogramming

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  Anti-Fascism is now a crime?

  *On Sept. 22, 2025, Fearless Leader Trump signed an executive order to designate "Antifa" as a domestic terrorist organization [34][35]. Academics, legal experts, and other sane onlookers argue that such an executive action exceeds the authority of the U.S. presidency and violates the First Amendment [37][38][39]. Analyses, reports, and studies have concluded that antifa is NOT, for one thing, an "organization" but rather an idea and, for another, NOT a major domestic terrorism risk [40][41][42]. But never mind that. Trump is ruler so we MUST obey him even if he mandates illegal, immoral, genocidal crimes or anything based on the words of a lying liar who lies.

Why Trump OBEYS Israel's dictator Bibi

It's Palestine not the sham ethnostate of "Israel" - Young Seth Meyers eviscerates Trump's ego

John Mearsheimer on Trump, Epstein, and Israel

He better obey me. Blackmail and extortion are powerful inducements: 'wonderful secrets'

The president of the United States publicly kowtows to the CIA's Dictator King of Israel/US

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That's my boy Donny. And by boy I mean slave.

(Katie Halper) Oct. 13, 2025: How much evidence is enough evidence to want to see it? And what is circumstantial evidence? American political scientist John Mearsheimer and writer Susan Abulhawa explore whether Trump’s fear of crossing Israel and Bibi traces back to [child molestation crimes with long-time Zionist Jewish best friend] Jeffrey Epstein — and what might still be sealed in the Epstein Files/Client List.

For the full discussion, please join on Patreon at: patreon-full-dr-140709512

• 00:00 - Jewish activist Katie Halper asks whether Epstein’s files explain why U.S. leaders never cross Israel
• 00:31 - Mearsheimer says “Israel might have the goods on Trump” — Epstein and Maxwell’s covert (intel) blackmail network
• 01:29  - Both parties, Democrat and Republican, keep the Epstein Files sealed
• 03:31 - Trump bullies every country except Israel
• 05:23 - Susan Abulhawa on Trump’s ceasefire attempt and how “something changed” after Israel pushed back
• 05:58 - Trump doesn’t have the stomach [that Bibi does] for endless war
• 06:53 - Abulhawa links Clinton’s scandal to a deeper culture of blackmail and manipulation that still shapes U.S. politics.

Pam Bondi protects child molesters

(Times of India) Epstein's photos of Trump with half-naked children

GUESTS

We have a deal: I obey, and Bibi keeps quiet.

Susan Abulhawa is a Palestinian-American writer and activist whose novels, including Mornings in Jenin and Against the Loveless World, have been translated into dozens of languages and are widely acclaimed. She is also the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine and the Palestine Writes literary festival.

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a leading realist scholar of international relations. A West Point graduate and former U.S. Air Force officer, he is the author of numerous influential works on U.S. foreign policy and power politics.

Why Trump and Dems hide the files

(Brian Tyler Cohen) Trump pulls insane stunt to keep Epstein Files hidden

• The Katie Halper Show, Oct. 13, 2025, John Mearsheimer on Trump, Epstein, and Israel; Shauna Schwartz, Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Trump fails to win the Nobel Peace Prize

It's time to send in the jackals.

And the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize goes to indefatigable peacenik and activist...from the country Trump is killing so many people in: Venezuela's opposition leader Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize, dedicates it to Trump [so he won't have any hard feelings and will maybe stop bombing her country, extrajudicially killing its citizens, and threatening to invade so that the CIA can keep dealing cocaine unimpeded by the current administration]. Why would a leader in opposition to Venezuela's duly elected leader thank Trump? They're on the same team attempting to depose and destabilize the country until it falls under U.S. control in accordance with the regime change policies of the CIA as detailed in John Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (3rd Edition)

(Kim Iversen) Have Israel and US really agreed to stop genocide on Gaza?

If Trump doesn't deserve a Nobel Peace Prize, who does?

[Ironic] Opinion by Rex Huppke, USA TODAY, 10/10/25

Like Trump, I was also a misunderstood hippie.

I’ll always remember where I was on Oct. 10, 2025, the day Donald J. Trump was viciously denied the Nobel Peace Prize and the world stopped making sense.

Trump had humbly and incessantly campaigned for himself to be honored with the prize, even going so far as to make up claims about stopping wars.

He clearly wanted the Nobel Peace Prize like a hungry dog wants a biscuit, and how did the Norwegian Nobel Committee members reward his selfless self-promotion? They gave the prize to someone I’ve never heard of, Venezuelan opposition activist María Corina Machado. I don’t think she’s even an American!

• If a humanitarian like Trump doesn't deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, who does? | Opinion
• Gaza ceasefire live updates: Israeli hostage release countdown begins as Palestinians return to Gaza's north (Zionist CBS)

I work for genocidal Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and the Nobel people know it.

• PEACENIK, draft-dodging Donny Joe Trump as pot smoking hippie with VW (Stable Diffusion Online)
• Israel strikes Gaza as Palestinians pin hopes on Trump plan | REUTERS
• 20 Morning Rituals That Will Boost Mental Health

(DemocracyNow.org) U.S. and World Headlines, Oct. 10, 2025

• (Hook Global) Nobel Peace Prize Committee Chair explains why Trump lost to a real peace activist even though he is painfully envious of Black Pres. Obama; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

Obama is gay, smoked crack, married man

Tucker; Recklezz; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Former Pres. Obama and his trans husband Mike

Here we go again because Recklezz is only now getting the memo. And Tucker outed Barrack "Barry Soetoro or B.S." Hussein Obama's homosexuality, drug abuse, relationship with a man (named Larry Sinclair) who went around openly telling the media and being willing to sign an affidavit before he was [erased, disappeared, terminated with extreme prejudice]. These are not new things. We covered them long before anyone could accept them. Videos get taken down. People are made to shut up. Only the ballsiest website keeps links alive to original documents. And we were all so caught up to ending racism in this country by electing a half-Black man that no one wanted to hear it.

I apply my own makeup for my internet show.

No one wants to believe it even now no matter how much JimmyDore.com proves Obama lied and was worse than Bush-Dick (i.e., George-Cheney). It gets even crazier when, even though it's completely impossible and implausible, attorney Andrew D. Basiago outs "Barry" as a member of Project Pegasus, involved in secret government work, predicted to become president in the future.

When Pres. Basiago ascends to the White House, as it was predicted of him, too, then we will finally have the truth. At least that's the plan. Forget all that. What is the tangible, forensic evidence at hand? Michele "Michael" Obama is a man, case closed, no doubt about it. Find the original whistleblower, the woman who methodically laid out all the evidence like the best lawyer. Or just go back to sleep. Who cares about that we were fooled. It's far easier to lie to people than to convince them that they were lied to.

Is Michael (aka "Michele") Obama a man? | The Truth of B.S. and Mike Obama

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Afghan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala in Oscar race with "Stranger at the Gate"

BritFlicks; DT Next, 3/3/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Stranger at the Gate (official trailer) doc

(BritFlicks) A U.S. Marine plans to bomb an American mosque and kill every Muslim in it but instead ends up converting to Islam and becoming president of the temple, in this award-winning documentary short film Oscar candidate.

Malala Yousafzai in Oscar race with film

(DT Next) Malala Yousafzai [the young Afghan girl who got shot in the head by the "Taliban" for trying to go to school, or at least that's the pro-war CIA propaganda we are fed] is in the Oscar race for an Academy Award with her film Stranger at the Gate.

[Malala is a kind of Greta used, not in the climate debate, but to promote US military involvement in Afghanistan in the propaganda war by the CIA to convince American citizens to support their massive war effort. One is reminded of the other bullet-to-the-head "miracle survival" story, astronaut-turned-politician twin Mark Kelly's wife, the Congressperson Gabby Giffords, when it seems both Yousufzai and she had brain surgery and this whole being shot story was made up to take a bad situation and milk it for propaganda purposes.]

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has boarded the Oscar-shortlisted documentary short film Stranger at the Gate as executive producer.

The film, which charts the surprising change of heart of a PTSD-branded former U.S. Marine-domestic terrorist who set out to bomb a mosque (Islamic temple) but instead converted to Islam because his victims were so kind to him.

It was a prize winner at the 2022 Tribeca Festival. “This film is a powerful true story of forgiveness and redemption,” Yousafzai said in a statement.

“I hope the film challenges [viewers] to question their assumptions and show kindness to everyone they meet.” Directed by Joshua Seftel. Distributed by The New Yorker as part of the magazine’s documentary series.

#latestnews #dtnext #worldnews #englishnews #todaynews #internationalnews #oscar #oscars2023 #oscarawards #malalayousafzai #strangeratthegate

CIA anti-war activist, Bernie Sanders, Twitter

Mike MacRae, Jim Dore (jimmydore.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

What is "shadow banning," who does it, and why? It's for censorship and suppression of views.

The CIA (US military-industrial complex Central Intelligence Agency) controls most media of any significance in the U.S., utilizing a program it dubbed Operation Mockingbird.

Bernie has so gone over to the mainstream that he speaks for them now.

MLK Jr: A Gift of Silence? (Insight LA)

Trudy Goodman (InsightLA); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Give Yourself the Gift of Silence

Rev. Dr. King with Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh

What might it be like to start 2019 with a silent retreat over the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend?

What if it's led by Spring Washam, Beth Sternlieb, and Gullu Singh at the serene Royal Way Retreat Center?

During this silent retreat explore how the Buddha's teachings offer a path to inner peace, freedom, and a compassionate heart.

Awareness as developed through mindfulness practice and loving-kindness (metta) are the essential ingredients to any spiritual life.

Awareness leads to clarity, insight, and understanding. Altruistic love opens the heart, allows a kind embrace of ourselves, and connects us intimately with all of life.

The fusion of love and mindfulness supports a compassionate response to the pain we encounter in ourselves and in life.

 

Buddhas point, and we practice.

In this retreat of meditation practice we will discover how these qualities are intimately related and mutually-supportive and why they are necessary in any journey of awakening in learning to live wisely and kindly in the world.

We will draw guidance from the teachings and practices of the Buddha and inspiration from the life of the great Christian Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who beautifully expressed in his words and actions the power of compassion and in response to suffering and injustice in our world.

This retreat will include comprehensive meditation instruction for sitting and walking meditation, as well as talks, group discussions, and mindful movement.

It is suitable for beginning and experienced students. Time in retreat allows us to step out of the complexity of our lives and to listen deeply to our body, heart, and mind.

 

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